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If you like Doctor Who, but dislike capitalism, follow me towards the second star to the right and straight on 'til morning.

[alagaisia]

Hey. Why isn’t the moon landing a national holiday in the US. Isn’t that fucked up? Does anyone else think that’s absurd?

[alagaisia]

It was a huge milestone of scientific and technological advancement. (Plus, at the time, politically significant). Humanity went to space! We set foot on a celestial body that was not earth for the first time in human history! That’s a big deal! I’ve never thought about it before but now that I have, it’s ridiculous to me that that’s not part of our everyday lives and the public consciousness anymore. Why don’t we have a public holiday and a family barbecue about it. Why have I never seen the original broadcast of the moon landing? It should be all over the news every year!

[alagaisia]

It’s July 20th. That’s the day of the moon landing. Next year is going to be the 54th anniversary. I’m ordering astronaut shaped cookie cutters on Etsy and I’m going to have a goddamn potluck. You’re all invited.

[watermelon-converse]

Hey. Hey. Tumblr. Ides of March ppl. We can do this

[emi--rose]

Hell yeah moon holiday

[hello-delicious-tea]

Ooh coming up we should celebrate

[ariaste]

PITCH: We call it Moon Day, and then every 7 years when it falls on a Monday, that's an even BIGGER deal and we call that Moon Day Monday and go absolutely apeshit about it (the next Moon Day Monday is in 2026 so we have a couple trial runs first)

[moderndayklutz]

Happy Moon Day!!

[tomonkey44]

Happy Moonday Monday to all my fellow science nerds.

[redstonedust]

if vampires existed in real life i think there would be shady companies advertising "organic blood" sourced from "willing donors" who are coincidentally all poor people being paid like $5 per blood donation. and like haughty vegan vampires who only drink a synthetic blood drink thats brewed in a way thats actively worse for the enviroment. and radical traditionalist vampires who go on tiktok and claim that true alpha chads have to drain and kill people and anyone who leaves their victims alive is a liberal cuck. enter the world of hypothetical insufferable vampire politics with me.

[tomonkey44]

I think there would be something similar to the trad wife movement. Vampires who have managed to become wealthy (easy for the older vampires) have humans who live with them that they can feed on daily in rotation, and claim that this is the simplest and best way to live. They of course would be completely unaware of the difficulties that this lifestyle carries and be sure to hide any difficulties they do encounter from the audience. Occasionally a human would die and be replaced and the vampire would not mention the death unless the audience had been able to form some amount of bond with them, but the new human to replace the old one would get its own episode showing the new "Features" without showing any amount of reason why the human was desperate enough to put themselves into this situation, because that would show a flaw in the system, which of course we can't let happen.

[writing-prompt-s]

"Your son will take your throne from you," they prophesized, spitting each word out of teeth clenched tight with hatred. Why they'd bother prophesizing such an event befuddles you; your son is literally your chosen heir, after all.

[loveyourllamas]

Years later, you realize what the prophets meant. For most of your life your son was your pride and joy; an academic, who would surely lead the kingdom into greater health and wellness. Until he committed the ultimate act of betrayal.

"You will not take my throne from me!" You cling to your grand chair so hard your knuckles turn white.

Your son sighs. "Dad. Dad it's lead-"

"Of course it's lead! It's a strong metal, signifying the strength of our country- this throne has been passed down the royal line for 300 years, 15 rulers before me-"

"That is not enough time for that many people!" Your son throws his hands up in the air. "Because it is lead! It is poisoning you! Didn't you wonder why grandpa died at 40?"

"Ah, pfoo! That's the ancestral curse."

"It's the throne! The throne is the ancestral curse!!!"

[littledoggy-girlcollar]

the son successfully convinces his father to give up the lead throne. he lives and rules peacefully for much longer than his family’s previous generations, dying in his third score.

the son, upon coronation, receives his own prophecy: “your daughter will tear your castle to the ground.”

now, this is a bit more of a cause for immediate concern, but unlike kings of old, he decides that the best way to avoid this surely gruesome future is to love his daughter the best he can, encourage her interests, and guide her with a steady hand - if she is to ruin his kingdom, after all, then let it be with iron will and care for the people.

his daughter is not violent at all, will only hunt if they promise the kitchens will cook what is killed and will give some to the people, and only takes a passing fancy in swordsmanship (which he thinks is more to do with the jawline of the instructor, not that he says anything). she loves to study and read, and when she asks to go for further education in a different corner of the kingdom, he allows it.

after one year, she returns, and spends the first week back acting shifty. she is always caught ducking out of corners and hidden passages, whispering with staff, and pouring over old maps of the castle layout in the library, hurriedly covering them up when anyone passes.

he privately gets his affairs in order.

two weeks after her return, the king’s daughter approaches her father with a steely look in her eye and a grim set to her jaw.

“father,” she begins, “what do you know of asbestos?”

[wickedsick]

today we post everett true

[shotofchinaco]

February 16, 1917 (via Outbursts Of Everett True on Bluesky):

[anarchistmemedistro]

more than 100 years later and all of these are still problems

[m-o-p-e]

The Outbursts of Everett True - Wikipedia

[lost-fool-wandering]

historical padlocks are just great

[deliriousfaol]

the town crier finds me sleeping on my doorstep bc drunk me last night couldn’t open the lock on my door and announces my buffoonery to the whole square

[ashstfu]

i don’t think people understand how much of life is grief. not just people dying, but losing the version of yourself you thought you’d become. grieving the city you had to leave. the friends you lost not in argument, but in silence. the summer that will never come back. the feeling that maybe you peaked at 12 when you were reading books under the covers and believing in forever

[draconym]

A couple weeks ago I was practicing my owl calls on a night hike and I successfully called in a barred owl. My owl call is pretty good, but I've never called an owl to me from afar because I rarely do night hikes and so I don't get much chance to. I had expected to be really excited about this, especially since two of my coworkers are really skilled at owl calls and they don't usually get a response, much less a full conversation, but instead I felt so guilty. I eventually had to start ignoring this poor deceived owl that was following my call through the park. I felt like I catfished him.

[draconym]

I was gonna say "who among us would follow an inhuman voice in the forest yelling HEY, HEY YOU WHAT'S UP?" but then I remembered this website has me pigeonholed as Most Likely To Be Taken By The Fae. So. Yeah fair enough to this owl, I would probably do the same.

[immareblog]

[draconym]

[somethingsweeter]

Looking at buying @inkskinned 's book and stumbled across this

Tag urself I'm bisexual brisket centipede

[inkskinned]

this is like staring into a curs'd mirror. this is showing me things about myself and my writing that i should look away from lest i get pulled into the pit of Terror and Despair

[byojaku-moved]

what if i told you there was one user on the russian social network/ video sharing website odnoklassniki/oднокла́ссники that has uploaded nearly every movie ever from 1896 to the current day, mostly with subtitles. and including that has uploaded every criterion collection film in full hd with subtitles. for free. all hail ok.ru user fleurinna guta

they keep their films in unlisted folders so you cant just see them all on their profile unfortunately but ill provide links. also don't ask me why this user separates their films in this way, i don't know and frankly it confuses me too.

EUROPEAN FILMS (sometimes includes west asian films?)

JAPANESE FILMS

CLASSIC FILMS (aka american and British films)

"MISC FILMS" (aka films from everywhere that isn't the usa, europe, japan. sometimes films from the GDR are in here which is confusing again because communist germany was still part of europe)

this is a much better alternative to stuff like 123movies or bflix because there are no hot singles in your area or games that you wont last 5 minutes playing. hope u enjoy and let us all praise and embrace user fleurinna guta

[phrear]

i'm fixing these folder links so everything posted there can be easily available without an account

south korea

european

animated

silent

other mixed bag

movies

south korea and china

japanese

italian

french

classic

other asian

[tormentedpenguin86]

[tomonkey44]

4... Unless putting the nail through my fingers counts as a piercing.

[miggylol]

You've been cast into a fictional setting, and you don't get to pick your genre. This wheel picks it for you.

But you DO get to pick your role.

Hero/Protagonist

Loyal Sidekick

Romantic Interest

Comic Relief

Mentor

Villain/Antagonist

Mysterious Holder of Plot-Relevant Knowledge

Voting ended onJan 17, 2025

[tomonkey44]

Slapstick comedy usually has the sidekick get more fun stunts. I was so close to time travel though, and for that I'd probably go with the Protagonist.

[animentality]

[undeadentropy]

Aunt Linda spitting facts

[tomonkey4]

You're handsome, the kind where I could see your eyes shimmering under the moonlight when I saw you pass by. I don't know if you remember me, but I bumped into you and you gave me a smile. Your smile lit up the dark night and it felt less colder than it was.

But your heart beats for another, still trying to get over her, I fear. And you're straight, which makes me wish that I could have the courage to tell you that you're an amazing, beautiful man and I'd love to know you more. You are amazing. And even though the stars won't align for us, I'll still wait to see how your eyes shimmer under the moonlight when I see you next time.

I don't know when this was sent,

But it must be recent to refer to the dent

In my heart which was recently rent.

I'm glad to have provided you light,

But I don't often smile just passing in the night,

So it's likely that made me laugh just right.

If you want to message me not anonymously,

Perhaps we can become friends more truly,

And I can stop rhyming so religiously.

If it helps you to be more comfortably seen,

@sablestarboi can attest that I'm not mean,

And I don't mind my friends crushing on me.

But thank you for the distraction either way,

And the compliments aimed my way.

I hope we meet again one day.

[tomonkey44]

After you fall asleep but before I end the call, I say the things I feel that you don't want to hear yet, but nonetheless are true. I tell you that I want to hold you, I tell you that I want to love you, and I tell you that you are beautiful inside and out. I have to tell you while you sleep, because if you are awake then you would say I am too intense. Holding myself back is the most difficult part of all of this, but I think it is best if you believe that the most difficult thing is that you don't feel the same towards me. I can handle the fact that I like you a lot more than you like me, and I can handle you not telling me all of the things that you feel for me, but not being able to tell you the things that I feel for you... If I don't let these feelings out somewhere, then I may burst. So I can give these words to you, in lieu of my affections, when you cannot hear them, where you will not see them, and where they cannot push you away from me.

[skeletonclaw]

[freedominthedarkmp3]

One time this man approached me in a bar talking in Spanish. So I assumed he was Spanish and we started speaking, we had a whole ass conversation and at some point he was like. So what part of Spain are you from? And I said well I’m Italian actually. What part of Spain are you from? And he was like. I’m Greek.

[pastelpinkcheeks]

One time I was in Argentina and I was so tired of trying to speak Spanish because I’m not very good at it lmao so I broke into exasperated English and the retail seller girl quickly understood me and engaged me in conversation. We talked for a while, she introduced me to a makeup brand, and then I decided to buy it. While she was packaging the purchase, she asked me if I were from the US or perhaps the UK and I just said “oh no I’m Brazilian hahah” and she looked me straight in the eyes and said, in clear Portuguese, “I’m Brazilian too”

[ex-evil-genius-deactivated20220]

When my dad went to China on a work trip, his Mandarin speaking wasn’t great but his listening was fine (his first language is Cantonese) and he encountered a German guy who had moved to China to work. My dad knew how to speak German because he studied it in university (but wasn’t great when it came to listening to new vocab he hadn’t studied before), and the German guy knew Mandarin because he lived and worked in China, so they had a conversation where my dad spoke to the German guy in German and the guy responded in Mandarin. I’m sure it confused a lot of their coworkers who just saw the Asian guy speaking German and the white guy speaking Mandarin.

[theriversdaughter]

Some years ago, I worked for a manufacturing company that had a service depot in China.  One of the engineers from the main office here in the US spent most of his time at the depot.  The problem was that he didn’t speak *any* of the various Chinese languages, and no one at the depot spoke any English. They all, however, spoke Spanish.

[1stsana]

I love the world

[tomonkey44]

+1 reason to learn another language.

[memewhore]

[tomonkey44]

Me as a landowner if I'm not worried about lawsuits.